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Gregorian Year
2006 (MMVI) was
a common year starting
on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 2006th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium, the 6th year of
the 21st century,
and the 7th year of the 2000s decade. 2006 was designated as: ·
International Year of Deserts and Desertification[1] ·
International Asperger's
Year Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 5New English
words and terms Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Russia cuts the shipment
of natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.[2] ·
January 12 – A stampede during
the Stoning of the Devil ritual
on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia,
kills at least 362 pilgrims.[3][4] ·
January 15 – NASA's Stardust mission
successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.[5] ·
January 19 – NASA launches
the first space mission to Pluto as a rocket
hurls the New Horizons spacecraft
on a nine-year journey.[6] ·
January 25 – The Walt Disney
Company buys Pixar Animation
Studios from Lucasfilm Ltd. for $7.4 billion and
now Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Pictures. February[edit] ·
February 3 – Egyptian passenger ferry, MS al-Salam
Boccaccio 98, sinks in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia,
killing over 1,000 people.[7] ·
February 10–26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are
held in Turin, Italy.[8] ·
February 17 – A massive
mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines killing an estimated 1,126
people.[9] March[edit] ·
March 9 – NASA's Cassini–Huygens spacecraft
discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting
from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of
water.[10] ·
March 10 – NASA's Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter enters orbit around Mars.[11][12] ·
March 15 – The United
Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish
the United
Nations Human Rights Council.[13] ·
March 28 – A scramjet jet engine, HyShot III, designed to fly at seven times
the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South
Australia.[14][15] April[edit] ·
April 11 ·
The European Space
Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe
enters Venus' orbit.[16] ·
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms
that Iran has successfully
produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium.[17][18] ·
April 20 – Iran announces
a deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm
on Russian soil;[19] nine days later Iran announces that it will not move all
activity to Russia, thus leading to a de facto termination
of the deal. May[edit] ·
May 17 – The Human Genome Project publishes
the last chromosome sequence,
in Nature.[20] ·
May 27 – The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta
earthquake shakes central Java with
an MSK intensity
of IX (Destructive), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.[21][22] June[edit] ·
June 3 – Montenegro declares independence after
a May 21 referendum.
Two days later, the republic of Serbia and Montenegro formed in 2003
collapses, leaving Serbia as the
successor country.[23][24] ·
June 9 – July 9 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup takes
place in Germany;[25] which is won by Italy.[26] ·
June 28 ·
Israel launches an
offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to rocketfire
by Hamas into Israeli territory.[27] ·
The
United States Armed Forces withdraws its forces in Iceland, thereby disbanding the Iceland Defense
Force.[28] July[edit] ·
July 1 – The Qinghai–Tibet
railway launches a trial operation, making Tibet the
last province-level entity of China to have
a conventional railway.[29] ·
July 6 – The Nathu La pass between India and China,
sealed during the Sino-Indian War,
re-opens for trade after 44 years.[30] ·
July 11 – A series of
seven bomb blasts hits the city of Mumbai, India, killing more than 200 people.[31] ·
July 12 – Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping two Israeli
soldiers and killing three others. Hezbollah declares open war against Israel
two days later.[32] August[edit] ·
August 22 – Pulkovo
Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian
border in Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.[33] ·
August 24 – The International
Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly,
demoting Pluto to the status of dwarf planet more than 70 years after
its discovery.[34] September[edit] ·
September 19 – The Royal Thai Army overthrows the
government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in
a coup d'état.[35] ·
September 29 – Gol
Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides with a business jet
over the Amazon rainforest,
killing all 154 on board the former.[36] October[edit] ·
October 6 – Fredrik Reinfeldt replaces Göran Persson as Prime Minister
of Sweden. ·
October 9 – North Korea claims to have conducted
its first-ever nuclear
test.[37] ·
October 13 – South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected as the new
Secretary-General of the United Nations, succeeding Kofi Annan.[38] November[edit] ·
November 2 – No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock becomes the most
expensive painting after it is sold privately for $140
million.[39] ·
November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to
death by hanging by the Iraqi
Special Tribunal. He is executed for crimes against humanity
on December 30.[40] ·
November 12 – The breakaway state
of South Ossetia holds
a referendum on
independence from Georgia.[41] ·
November 23 – A series of car
bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City, Baghdad, kills at least 215 people and
injure 257 other people.[42] December[edit] ·
December 5 – The military seizes power
in Fiji, in a coup d'état led
by Commodore Frank Bainimarama.[43] ·
December 11 – Felipe Calderón sends
the Mexican military to combat the drug cartels and put down the violence in
the state of Michoacán, initiating the Mexican Drug War.[44] ·
December 24 – Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in
Somalia.[45] ·
December 26 – An oil
pipeline explodes in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, killing at least 200 people.[46] ·
December 29 – UK settles its Anglo-American loan,
post-WWII loan debt. Births[edit] ·
January 27 – Kim Su-an, South Korean actress ·
March 12 – Lee Re, South Korean child actress ·
June 23 – Lee Chae-mi, South Korean actress ·
June 25 – Mckenna Grace, American actress ·
July 25 – Konomi Watanabe, Japanese actress ·
September 6 – Prince Hisahito
of Akishino, Japanese prince ·
October 5 – Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor ·
November 16 – Mason Ramsey, American singer Deaths[edit]
January[edit] Main article: Deaths in January
2006 ·
January 3 – Bill Skate, 5th Prime Minister of Papua New
Guinea (b. 1953) ·
January 4 – Maktoum bin
Rashid Al Maktoum, 3rd Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates
(b. 1943) ·
January 6 – Lou Rawls, African-American singer (b. 1933) ·
January 7 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer,
explorer and author (b. 1912) ·
January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920) ·
January 15 – Jaber Al-Ahmad
Al-Sabah, 13th Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926) ·
Anthony Franciosa,
American actor (b. 1928) ·
Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941) ·
January 21 – Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovar writer, scholar and
political leader (b. 1944) ·
January 24 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965) ·
January 27 – Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany
(b. 1931) ·
January 30 – Coretta Scott King,
American civil rights activist (b. 1927) February[edit] Main article: Deaths in
February 2006 ·
February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist,
and writer (b. 1921) ·
February 8 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music/film
composer (b. 1914) ·
February 10 – J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974) ·
February 12 – Peter Benchley, American writer (b. 1940) ·
February 13 – P. F. Strawson, English philosopher
(b. 1919) ·
February 15 – Sun Yun-suan, 10th Premier of the Republic
of China (b. 1913) ·
February 18 – Sirr Al-Khatim
Al-Khalifa, 5th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1919) ·
February 21 – Mirko
Marjanović, 63rd Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1937) ·
February 22 – Said Mohamed Djohar,
2-Time President of the Comoros (b. 1918) ·
February 23 – Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (b. 1921) ·
Don Knotts, American actor and comedian
(b. 1924) ·
Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924) ·
February 28 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) March[edit] Main article: Deaths in March 2006 ·
March 1 ·
Harry Browne, American writer and politician
(b. 1933) ·
Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947) ·
March 6 – Dana Reeve, American actress (b. 1961) ·
March 7 – Gordon Parks, American photographer
(b. 1912) ·
March 9 – John Profumo, British politician (b. 1915) ·
March 11 – Slobodan
Milošević, 3rd President of Serbia (b. 1941) ·
March 13 ·
Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer
(b. 1944) ·
Maureen Stapleton,
American actress (b. 1925) ·
March 14 – Lennart Meri, 2nd President of Estonia
(b. 1929) ·
March 15 – Georgios Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece
(b. 1918) ·
March 17 – Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor
(b. 1955) ·
March 25 ·
Rocío Dúrcal,
Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944) ·
Richard Fleischer,
American film director (b. 1916) ·
March 27 – Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921) ·
March 28 – Caspar Weinberger,
15th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917) April[edit] Main article: Deaths in April 2006 ·
April 5 – Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941) ·
April 8 – Gerard Reve, Dutch author (b. 1923) ·
April 11 – Proof, American rapper (D12)
(b. 1973) ·
April 21 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach
(b. 1931) ·
April 23 – Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921) ·
April 24 – Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940) ·
April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian writer
and activist (b. 1916) ·
April 29 – John Kenneth
Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908) May[edit] Main article: Deaths in May 2006 ·
May 3 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921) ·
May 6 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (b. 1926) ·
May 11 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935) ·
May 12 – Hussein Maziq, Prime Minister of Libya
(b. 1918) ·
May 13 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian
(b. 1923) ·
May 14 – Robert Bruce
Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1921) ·
May 22 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of
the World Health Organisation (b. 1945) ·
May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921) ·
May 24 – Eric Bedser, English cricketer (b. 1918) ·
May 25 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and
songwriter (b. 1941) ·
May 26 – Édouard
Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963) ·
May 30 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director
(b. 1926) ·
May 31 – Raymond Davis Jr.,
American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914) June[edit] Main article: Deaths in June 2006 ·
June 1 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer (b. 1946) ·
June 6 – Billy Preston, American artist and musician
(b. 1946) ·
June 7 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
Jordanian militant (b. 1966) ·
June 12 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923) ·
June 13 – Charles Haughey, 7th Taoisearch of Ireland
(b. 1925) ·
June 17 – Bussunda, Brazilian comedian (b. 1962) ·
June 23 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer
(b. 1923) July[edit] Main article: Deaths in July 2006 ·
July 1 – Ryutaro Hashimoto,
53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937) ·
July 5 ·
Gert Fredriksson, Swedish kayaker (b. 1919) ·
Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942) ·
July 7 ·
Syd Barrett, English singer, songwriter, and
guitarist (b. 1946) ·
Elias Hrawi, 9th President of Lebanon
(b. 1925) ·
July 8 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917) ·
July 10 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965) ·
July 13 – Red Buttons, American actor and comedian
(b. 1919) ·
July 17 – Mickey Spillane, American writer (b. 1918) ·
July 19 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920) ·
July 20 – Ted Grant, British politician (b. 1913) ·
July 21 – Ta Mok, Cambodian military leader (b. 1926) ·
July 28 – David Gemmell, British author (b. 1948) ·
July 30 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian
socialist (b. 1921) August[edit] Main article: Deaths in August
2006 ·
August 3 ·
Arthur Lee,
American musician (b. 1945) ·
Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915) ·
August 9 – James Van Allen, American physicist
(b. 1914) ·
Te Atairangikaahu,
Maori queen (b. 1931) ·
Faas Wilkes, former Dutch football player
(b. 1923) ·
August 16 – Alfredo Stroessner,
42nd President of Paraguay (b. 1912) ·
August 19 – Óscar Míguez,
Uruguayan football player (b. 1927) ·
August 20 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer
(b. 1911) ·
Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916) ·
S. Yizhar, Israeli writer (b. 1916) ·
August 23 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician and
bandleader (b. 1928) ·
August 25 – Noor Hassanali, 2nd President of Trinidad
and Tobago (b. 1918) ·
August 26 – Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924) ·
August 27 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee,
Indian filmmaker (b. 1922) ·
Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916) ·
Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Nobel writer
(b. 1911) September[edit] Main article: Deaths in
September 2006 ·
September 1 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet (b. 1910) ·
September 2 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (b. 1930) ·
Giacinto Facchetti,
Italian footballer (b. 1942) ·
Steve Irwin, Australian environmentalist and
television personality (b. 1962) ·
Daniel Wayne Smith,
American actor (b. 1986) ·
Tāufaʻāhau
Tupou IV, 4th King of Tonga (b. 1918) ·
September 11 – Joachim Fest, German historian and
journalist (b. 1926) ·
September 14 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and
bodybuilder (b. 1926) ·
September 15 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist (b. 1929) ·
September 16 – Pablo Santos,
Mexican actor (b. 1987) ·
September 23 – Malcolm Arnold, English composer (b. 1921) ·
Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912) ·
Iva Toguri D'Aquino,
American propagandist for Japan in World War II (b. 1916) October[edit] Main article: Deaths in October
2006 ·
October 4 – Tom Bell, English actor (b. 1933) ·
October 7 – Anna Politkovskaya,
American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958) ·
October 9 – Paul Hunter,
British snooker player (b. 1978) ·
October 11 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player
(b. 1972) ·
October 16 – Valentín Paniagua,
President of Peru (b. 1936) ·
October 20 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910) ·
October 22 – Choi Kyu-hah, 4th President of South Korea
(b. 1919) ·
October 27 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan,
Pakistani civil servant and 7th President of Pakistan (b. 1915) ·
Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and
official (b. 1917) ·
Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955) ·
October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist
(b. 1926) ·
October 31 – P. W. Botha, former State President of South
Africa (b. 1916) November[edit] Main article: Deaths in
November 2006 ·
Adrienne Shelly, American actress &
director (b. 1966) ·
William Styron, American writer (b. 1925) ·
November 3 – Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925) ·
November 5 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet,
writer and journalist, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925) ·
November 8 – Basil Poledouris, American composer
(b. 1945) ·
November 10 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919) ·
November 15 – Ana Carolina Reston,
Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985) ·
November 16 – Milton Friedman, American Nobel economist
(b. 1912) ·
Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928) ·
Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer
(b. 1927) ·
November 20 – Robert Altman, American film director
(b. 1925) ·
Pierre Amine Gemayel,
Lebanese politician (b. 1972) ·
Hassan Gouled
Aptidon, 1st President of Djibouti (b. 1916) ·
November 22 – Frances Rutherford,
New Zealand artist (b. 1912) ·
Alexander Litvinenko,
Russian-born spy (b. 1962) ·
Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930) ·
Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919) December[edit] Main article: Deaths in
December 2006 ·
December 1 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948) ·
December 5 – David Bronstein, Soviet Union chess
grandmaster (b. 1924) ·
December 7 – Jeane Kirkpatrick,
American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926) ·
December 10 – Augusto Pinochet, 31st President of Chile
(b. 1915) ·
Paul Arizin, American basketball player
(b. 1928) ·
Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935) ·
December 14 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish record executive
(b. 1923) ·
December 15 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver
(b. 1939) ·
December 16 – Marjorie F. Lambert,
American archaeologist, anthropologist (b. 1908) ·
December 18 – Joseph Barbera, American animator (b. 1911) ·
December 21 – Saparmurat Niyazov,
1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940) ·
December 25 – James Brown, American singer (b. 1933) ·
December 26 – Gerald Ford, American politician, 38th
President of the United States (b. 1913) ·
December 30 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq
(b. 1937) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Chemistry – Roger D. Kornberg. ·
Economics – Edmund Phelps. ·
Literature – Orhan Pamuk. ·
Peace – Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank. ·
Physics – John C. Mather, and George F. Smoot. ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Andrew Z. Fire, and Craig C. Mello. New English words and terms[edit] ·
agender ·
bucket
list ·
crowdfunding ·
crowdsourcing ·
Eris ·
hypermiling ·
mumblecore ·
sizzle
reel ·
ski
cross[47] See also[edit] |
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